From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 3 02:52:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA12800 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 02:52:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id CAA12790 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 02:52:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA27071; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 11:51:36 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA04598; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 11:51:31 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id KAA14022; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 10:39:30 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 10:39:30 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org ('hackers@freefall.freebsd.org') Cc: mango@staff.communique.net (Raul Zighelboim) Subject: Re: Panic - Maloc: lost data....... (auch) References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Raul Zighelboim on Jan 2, 1997 16:14:55 -0600 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Raul Zighelboim wrote: > Two questions: can I set the server (2.1.6R) to automatically restart > if it crashes ? It's normally supposed to do this. > Is there a utility I can run in order to have an idea of what caused the > problem > (or do I have to recompile with kernel debug on?) You gotta enable core dumps, and savecore. (It's silly that there are two variables for this.) > And then, how do I interpret the results of the core dump ? With the kernel debugger. Have a look into the section about kernel debugging in the handbook. However, judging from your chosen subject, i'm afraid this is rather a hardware problem. That is, the crash will happen at various and unpredictable spots, so the kernel debugger or coredump aren't of much use for it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)